Lafayette’s Trial of the Nineteenth Century: The Scandal, Rumor, & Politics of Mrs. Helen J. Gougar

Jennifer L. Adams, DePauw University

Excerpt from full issue available at the Indiana Historical Society Digital Library.

Abstract

Helen M. Gougar appeared before the Indiana Supreme Court in 1897 to argue on behalf of suffrage for women. Judge James McCabe said Gougar made “one of the most forcible, logical and concise legal arguments ever made before this court. Not one man in a hundred acquits himself so well.’’